Fragment with Gold Foil and Apotropaic Interlacing Knots
300s-400s
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Fragment with Gold Foil and Apotropaic Interlacing Knots, 300s-400s. Egypt, Byzantine period, 4th-5th century. Undyed linen, dyed wool, and gold foil; plain weave with supplementary weft-loops, slit-tapestry
weave with supplementary weft wrapping; overall: 20.4 x 18.5 cm (8 1/16 x 7 5/16 in.); mounted: 33 x 33 cm (13 x 13 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1983.140.c
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Textile
- Formatted Medium
- undyed linen, dyed wool, and gold foil; plain weave with supplementary weft-loops, slit-tapestry weave with supplementary weft wrapping
- Medium
- undyed, linen, dyed, wool, gold, foil, plain, weave, supplementary, weft-loops, slit-tapestry, weft, wrapping
- Dimensions
- Overall: 20.4 x 18.5 cm (8 1/16 x 7 5/16 in.); Mounted: 33 x 33 cm (13 x 13 in.)
- Departments
- Textiles
- Accession Number
- 1983.140.c
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- Byzantine Gallery 210 Rotation, Byzantine Gallery 210 Rotation, Coptic Textile Rotation, Designing Identity: The Power of Textiles in Late Antiquity
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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